Hourly overnight checks on twice-convicted murderer Traigo Andretti were done improperly at the time of the 40-year-old’s death, according to the acting warden of the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Saskatoon.

Correctional officers found Andretti’s body face down on his bed around 7 a.m. on July 2, 2016. His wounded left arm was hanging off the side of the bed, bleeding into a makeshift basin constructed of toilet paper, blankets and plastic bags.

Since April 2014, Andretti was serving an indeterminate sentence for murdering and dismembering two women.

Andretti was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014 in the death of his wife Jennifer McPherson in British Columbia. He then pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2006 killing of Myrna Letandre in Winnipeg.

While serving a sentence at Stony Mountain Institution near Winnipeg, Andretti was moved to RPC in April due to suicidal behaviour, the centre’s acting warden said.

The 40-year-old spent roughly nine weeks at RPC, telling staff on multiple occasions he felt he should suffer for his crimes, Sorokan said.

At times, Andretti underwent additional mental health monitoring, but he was taken off monitoring days before he was found dead, according to Sorokan.

“He was managed on a level deemed appropriate by health services,” she said.

An autopsy conducted by Saskatchewan’s chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Shaun Ladham, found Andretti died of blood loss due to the cut on his arm.

A weapon was never discovered – even an X-ray of Andretti’s body revealed nothing.